Revisiting India's Partition : New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics /

Bibliographic Details
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Orient Blackswan Private Limited, 2016.
Subjects:
Collective memory -- South Asia. > Memory -- Social aspects -- South Asia. Memory -- Political aspects -- South Asia. Politics and culture -- South Asia. India -- History -- Partition, 1947. India -- History -- Partition, 1947 -- Influence. South Asia -- Politics and government. > South Asia -- Social conditions. Collective memory. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Memory -- Political aspects. Memory -- Social aspects. > Politics and culture. Politics and government. > Social conditions. India. South Asia.
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245 |a Revisiting India's Partition :  |b New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics /  |c Singh, Amritjit; Gairola, Rahul K.,and Iyer, Nalini 
260 |a New Delhi :   |b Orient Blackswan Private Limited,  |c  2016. 
300 |a  xxxv, 363 p.   |c  24 cm. 
500 |a  Originally published by Lexington Books : Lanham, MD, 2016. 
505 |a  Section I. Approaches to partition -- Specters of democracy/the gender of specters : cultural memory and the Indian partition / Radhika Mohanram -- Lost homes, shifting borders and the search for belonging / Jasbir Jain -- A will to say or unsay : female silences and discursive interventions in partition narratives / Parvinder Mehta -- Migrations in absentia : multinational digital advertising and manipulation of partition trauma / Rahul. K. Gairola -- Section II. Nations and narrations -- Exorcizing the ghosts of times past : partition memoirs as testimony / Tarun K. Saint -- Difficult choices : work, family, and displaced women in partition writings / Debali Mookerjea-Leonard -- Refugees as Homo sacers : partition and the national imaginary in The hungry tide / Amrita Ghosh -- Section III. Borders and borderlands -- Property, violence and displacement : partition in Sindh / Nandita Bhavnani -- The long shadow of 1947 : partition, violence and displacement in Jammu and Kashmir / Ilyas Chattha -- From frontiers to borders : partition and the production of marginal spaces in north east India / Babyrani Yumnam -- Looking east : melodramatic narrative, ecotheater and the "forgotten long march" in Jangam / Amit R. Baishya -- Section IV. From Pakistan to Bangladesh -- The never-ending partition : Pakistan's self-identification dilemma / Amber Fatima Riaz -- Partition and the Bangladeshi literary response / Kaiser Haq -- Cosmopolitan aesthetics in Shakeel Adil Zada's Baazigar / Masood A. Raja -- The nexus of class, identity and politics in the representational economy of partition : the case of Hasan Azizul Huq / Mohd. Rezaul Haque -- Partition and beyond : Intizar Husain's quest for meaning and vision / Tasneem Shahnaaz and Amritjit Singh -- Section V. Partitions within -- Buckle in the Hindu Belt : contemporary Hindu-Muslim violence and the legacy of partition in Banaras / Jeremy A. Rinker -- Hyderabad, partition, and Hindutva : strategic revisitings in Neelkanth's "Durga" (2005) / Nazia Akhtar -- Partition's others : the view from South India / Nalini Iyer. 
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